THE GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING THAT FOUND ITS GENESIS IN JONATHON EDWARDS CHURCH IN NORTH HAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS, WAS AT A TIME PERIOD WHEN MOST OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE LESS THAN 10 YEARS OLD. IN 1740 GEORGE WHITEFIELD, AMERICA’S GREATEST EVANGELIST, CONTRIBUTED TO THIS GREAT AWAKENING, DELIVERING FROM MAINE TO GEORGIA, MOSTLY IN THE FIELDS, OVER 18,000 SERMONS FROM 1740 TO 1770. DURING THIS GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING SATAN WAS BUSY PLANTING TARES AMONGST THE WHEAT, COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANS OR ALMOST CHRISTIANS AMONGST THE TRUE CONVERTS. THUS IN 1746 JONATHON EDWARDS WROTE A TREATISE ENTITLED RELIGIOUS AFFECTION SO THAT THE AMERICANS COULD BE MADE AWARE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE AN ALMOST CHRISTIAN OR A TRUE CHRISTIAN. WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS MUST KNOW THAT NOT ONLY WE CANNOT MAKE OURSELVES A CHRISTIAN, BUT NEITHER CAN ANY CHURCH, PASTOR OR FRIEND MAKE US A CHRISTIAN. TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONLY RELIGION IN THE WORLD IN WHICH WE HAVE ZERO, ZIP, NADA FINGERPRINTS OF COOPERATION IN OUR CONVERSION, IT IS THE SAME AS OUR NATURAL BIRTH. THIS TREATISE ENTITLED RELIGIOUS IS ONE OF THE MOST DETAILED DOCUMENTS EVER WRITTEN HELPING US TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE A TRUE CHRISTIAN OR NOT. JONATHON EDWARDS IS VERY DETAILED IN BUILDING A FOUNDATION FIRST, HE IS A PICK AND SHOVEL PASTOR, AND THOSE OF US AMERICANS WHO BEEN BROUGHT UPON MCDONALDS #4, AND PUFFED WHEAT FOR BREAKFAST, THROW AWAY VACUUM CLEANERS, 30 SECOND SOUND BYTES FOR KNOWLEDGE, MAY FIND THIS TREATISE CHALLENGING BUT IF WE PAINSTAKINGLY STICK WITH IT WE WILL KNOW MORE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUE CHRISTIANITY AND FAKE CHRISTIANITY THAN ANYONE ELSE IN AMERICA. WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICA MUST TAKE HEED THE WARNINGS JESUS HAS GIVEN US TO HARD IT IS TO GET THROUGH STRAIT IS THE GATE AND NARROW THE WAY BEFORE WE DIE. MATTHEW 7: [13] Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
[14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
[15] Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
[24] Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
[25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
[26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
[27] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
[28] And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
[29] For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
